Dr. Allal Ouhtit

Allal Ouhtit is the Dean of the college of Healthcare Technologies. Dr. Ouhtit graduated from University Claude Bernard Lyon-I, France, with a PhD in Molecular/Cell Biology in 1995. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (World Health Organization). He joined the MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, in Houston. In 2001, he was Lecturer at Queens University of Belfast, United Kingdom. In 2005, he joined the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and Stanley S Scott Cancer Center in New Orleans as a Principal Investigator. In 2009, he became the Head of Department of Genetics at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman and was promoted to Full Professor in 2014.  He was a Professor at Qatar University since 2015, prior joining AUIB in September 2024.

Dean Ouhtit has extensive experience in academic and clinical program planning, development and review, program accreditation, ISO certifications, and clinical diagnostic laboratory management.  He has extensive teaching experience and taught various courses in both biological and biomedical sciences, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The research of Dr. Ouhtit has received grant funding from various national and international organizations. His research leverages OMICS approaches to identify and validate genes and novel signaling pathways that underpin the process of breast cancer cell invasion and metastasis. He has published several papers in high impact journals, including his paper published in the journal Science in 1999.